* Remove `HostRef` from the `wasmtime` public API
This commit removes all remaining usages of `HostRef` in the public API
of the `wasmtime` crate. This involved a number of API decisions such
as:
* None of `Func`, `Global`, `Table`, or `Memory` are wrapped in `HostRef`
* All of `Func`, `Global`, `Table`, and `Memory` implement `Clone` now.
* Methods called `type` are renamed to `ty` to avoid typing `r#type`.
* Methods requiring mutability for external items now no longer require
mutability. The mutable reference here is sort of a lie anyway since
the internals are aliased by the underlying module anyway. This
affects:
* `Table::set`
* `Table::grow`
* `Memory::grow`
* `Instance::set_signal_handler`
* The `Val::FuncRef` type is now no longer automatically coerced to
`AnyRef`. This is technically a breaking change which is pretty bad,
but I'm hoping that we can live with this interim state while we sort
out the `AnyRef` story in general.
* The implementation of the C API was refactored and updated in a few
locations to account for these changes:
* Accessing the exports of an instance are now cached to ensure we
always hand out the same `HostRef` values.
* `wasm_*_t` for external values no longer have internal cache,
instead they all wrap `wasm_external_t` and have an unchecked
accessor for the underlying variant (since the type is proof that
it's there). This makes casting back and forth much more trivial.
This is all related to #708 and while there's still more work to be done
in terms of documentation, this is the major bulk of the rest of the
implementation work on #708 I believe.
* More API updates
* Run rustfmt
* Fix a doc test
* More test updates
wasmtime-rust - Using WebAssembly from Rust
This crate is intended to be an example of how to load WebAssembly files from a
native Rust application. You can always use wasmtime and its family of crates
directly, but the purpose of this crate is to provide an ergonomic macro:
#[wasmtime_rust::wasmtime]
trait WasmMarkdown {
fn render(&mut self, input: &str) -> String;
}
fn main() -> anyhow::Result<()> {
let mut markdown = WasmMarkdown::load_file("markdown.wasm")?;
println!("{}", markdown.render("# Hello, Rust!"));
Ok(())
}
The wasmtime macro defined in the wasmtime-rust crate is placed on a trait
which includes the set of functionality which a wasm module should export. In
this case we're expecting one render function which takes and returns a
string.
The macro expands to a struct with all of the methods on the trait (they must
all be &mut self) and one function called load_file to actually instantiate
the module.
Note that this macro is still in early stages of development, so error messages aren't great yet and all functionality isn't supported yet.
Missing features
Currently if the wasm module imports any symbols outside of the WASI namespace the module will not load. It's intended that support for this will be added soon though!